How to wear a tie!

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Problem with tying a real knot in a real tie is that it it so open to interpretation. Kids will tie it so the tie is short, or so the skinny bit of the tie is shown or a bad knot and so as to absolve the teachers of the responsibility of saying

'Hey, scruffbag, this is how a tie is to be worn...'

And actually showing them that a tie should be tied and worn. Imagine the day young scratter comes home and the parent or guardian it happens to be living with at the time asks it what it learned that day and the answer is something like this:

'Well, we learned that if you tie a four in hand you will forever look like the overweight man in a cheap suit who does the photocopying, smells and wheezes when he walks. If you tie the Pratt people with think you do not wash your hands properly after you wiped for some reason and the only real knots to use are the Half Windsor and the Full Windsor. The Half Windsor is to be used for serious business such as job interviews, smiling at juries putting ladies to the sword at weddings. The Full Windsor is to be used when being interviews for large bank loans when your business plan is weak or not there, when you are to spend several days drinking gin in good company and when wearing a regimental tie of a regiment you never served with but every one will believe you did a short service commission with'.

Or we could just teach kids that if the cry like they are at an X Factor audition and whine about such concepts as fairness and human rights, people will just roll over to them.